Rooting for the Yankees is like...

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:22 PM -0400 5/18/05, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
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>6 January 1954, Sporting News, pg. 36, col. 1:
>Best gag line in the stands came from Jim Little, the TV actor, who said,
>"Rooting against the Yankees is like rooting against United States Steel."
>...

For my father, a Brooklyn Dodger fan, the standard variant was always
"Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for General Motors."

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>LARRY URDANG COMMENT ON ANS-L
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>It was a minor thing that brought forth that comment.
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>This is all part of my promotion for the world tour of: THE TWO LARRYS!
>URDANG AND HORN! LINGUISTICS! LAFFS!


we are, in fact, both Laurences, which is funny-strange, if not -ha-ha

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